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Official 
Exercises 



Held in celebration of the One 
Hundred and Twenty-seventh 
Anniversary of the Signing of 
the Declaration of Independence 
under the auspices of the Com- 
missioners of the District of 
Columbia :::::: 



1903 



Commissioners of the District of Columbia 

Henry B. F. Macfarland, President 

Henry L. West 

Maj. John Biddle, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. 



'"PHE Commissioners, in response to a general expression of 
desire by the citizens of the District of Columbia, provided 
on the 19th of May, 1903, for an official celebration of Independ- 
ence Day, and appointed a Committee of Arrangements which, with 
the assistance of a large number of citizens, planned and executed 
an appropriate program. The President of the United States ap- 
proved and cooperated, gave the use of the White House grounds 
for the public meeting, and expressed regret that he could not attend 
because of absence from the District. The members of the Cabinet, 
and the officers of the War and Navy Departments, and the Officer 
in Charge of Public Buildings and Grounds gave important assist- 
ance to the Committee of Arrangements. 

The program included a military procession composed of United 
States troops, sailors and marines, and the District National Guard, 
with Gen. S. B. M. Young, Grand Marshal, which marched from the 
Capitol to the White House in the morning ; a public meeting on 
the White House lawn ; and a display of aerial fireworks at the 
Washington Monument in the evening. A popular subscription pro- 
vided the necessary funds. 



COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS 



Henry B. F. Macfarland, Chairman 

W. F. Van Wickle, Secretary 

Charles J. Bell, Treasurer 

Admiral George Dewey 
President, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States 

Rear Admiral Henry C. Taylor 
President, Sons of the Revolution 

Dr. J. W. Bayne 
President, Sons of the American Revolution 

Mrs. Herschel Main 
State Regent, Daughters of the American Revolution 

Maj.-Ge\. Henry C. Corbin, U.S.A. 
Chairman, Committee on Procession 

Maj.-Gex. J. C. Breckinridge, U.S.A. 
President, Society of American Wars 

Rear Admiral J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N. 

Commander, Commandery of the District of Columbia, Military Order of 

the Loyal Legion 

S. Thomas Brown 
President, Association of the Oldest Inhabitants 

Thomas W. Smith 
President, Washington Board of Trade 

William F. Gude 
President, Business Men's Association 

Col. Thomas W. Symons 
Corps of Engineers, U.S.A., Officer in charge of Pubhc Buildings and 

Grounds 

Theodore W. Noyes M. G. Seckekdorff Scott C. Bone 

Louis P. Shoemaker 
Representative of the Committee on Co-operation of Citizens' Associations, 

N. C. I. D. C. 

Judge Ivory G. Kimball 
Department Commander, Grand Army of the Repubhc 

Col. M. Emmet Urell 
National Commander, Spanish War Veterans 

Dr. Marcus Benjamin- 
President, Society of the War of 1812 

Percy S. Foster 
Chairman, Committee on Vocal Music 

Frederick D. Owen 
Chairman, Committee on Reception 



NATIONAL CAPITAL INDEPENDENCE 
DAY CELEBRATION. 

On July 4, 1903, a celebration of the one hundred and twenty- 
seventh anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of In- 
dependence occurred under the auspices of the Commission- 
ers of the District of Columbia. At ten o'clock a public meet- 
ing, largely attended, was held on the lawn beneath the elms in 
front of the White House. 

The president of the Board of Commissioners, the Honorable 
Henry B. F. Macfarland presided and after preliminary music 
by the U. S. Marine Band called upon the Reverend D. J. 
Stafford, D. D., to ask the invocation. Immediately following 
was the introductory address by President Macfarland, who 
said: 

"The government of the District of Columbia for the first 
time has invited the citizens of the national capital to celebrate 
together the national birthday. We are here in response to that 
invitation which has been so cordially received. We meet, by 
the courtesy of the President of the United States, who has 
taken a personal interest in our celebration, at the White House, 
the official center of the national capital, the official home of 
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, and every other Presi- 
dent except the first and foremost, who is commemorated 
by the unequaled shaft which rises near us, and, even 
more impressively, by the city which he founded and 
which bears his name. Just beyond the White House, in the 
State Department, is the Declaration of Independence, the 
rough draft in Jefferson's handwriting, with the interlineations 
of John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, and the engrossed 
copy still clear, though the autographs of the signers have so 
generally faded away. Nowhere could this day be more ap- 
propriately celebrated. We hope that it will never cease to be 
celebrated in the American capital in the good old-fashioned 
American way. 



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"The process of declaring the independence of the United 
States from Great Britain began in June, 1776, with the adop- 
tion of Richard Henry Lee's resolution, and ended in Novem- 
ber, when the last signature was affixed to the engrossed decla- 
ration. But the Fourth of July is the official date at the head 
of the document itself, and has been accepted as the day for 
celebration because the declaration was, in fact, adopted, and 
signed by John Hancock, President of the Congress, on that 
day. It is interesting to know the exact facts of the proceed- 
ing, but not essential. It is enough to know that on the Fourth 
of July, 1776, the great transaction was officially and practically 
accomplished and that the bell of Independence Hall that night 
proclaimed liberty throughout all the land. 

"The fullness of time had come in the Providence of God 
for the act which transformed the English colonists into Ameri- 
can citizens. After more than a year of open revolt against the 
the British government, the colonists slowly and reluctantly 
changed from rebels into revolutionists and asserted an inde- 
pencler.ce Vvhich they had not until recently desired. Even 
when the hour came their delegates in Congress were not unani- 
mous, and it is doubtful whether a majority of the people ap- 
proved at the moment what was done. Their consent was not 
asked. It had to be assumed. The greatest step in our his- 
tory was taken without submission to even the limited elector- 
ate of that time. 

"It was the far-seeing leaders of the revolution in and out of 
Congress — General George Washington, commanding the army 
of the revolution already triumphant in New England, quite as 
much as Thomas Jefferson and John Adams — and the far- 
seeing men and women who were not leaders, that transform- 
ed the discordant colonies, in spite of the cautious and the con- 
servative, into the United States. They were carrying on here 
the fight for government by the people long waged by the 
Whigs in England. The Declaration of Independence takes its 
place naturally in the series of liberty documents in which the 
forefathers of the American revolutionists had already recorded 
the liberties purchased with blood. The Congress v/isely struck 



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out of Jefferson's draft the reflection on the English people, 
for it was the English government and not the English people, 
not, we believe, at least, a majority of the English people, that 
denied to the Americans the rights of Englishmen. Our revo- 
lution was part of the struggle of democracy. It was part of 
the evolution of freedom preceded by brave efforts on the con- 
tinent, as well as in Great Britain, and followed by the mighty 
movement which France led and which transformed Europe. 

"It not only gave us independence of Great Britain, but it 
made us a nation. It was in the name of the whole people, 
'by the authority of the good people,' and not in the name and 
by the authority of the colonies, that the declaration was made. 
We were a nation in fact before we were independent States, 
although it took a century and a mighty war to make out of 
those States a nation which should never be broken. 

"It set that new nation, small and feeble though it was, and 
despised in its day of small things, upon the path that led to 
expansion and power and glory. It made it possible for it to 
spread beyond the Alleghanies. beyond the Mississippi, beyond 
the Rockies, beyond the Pacific, and to become rich and pros- 
perous and influential beyond the dreams of any of the men of 
that time. It gave the principles which, slowly wrought out 
in action, tended to make it worthy to be a leader among na- 
tions — principles of righteousness, as well as of liberty. For 
there was no thought in the minds of the men who founded this 
nation of liberty separated from justice, or of freedom apart 
from righteous living. They were not planning for license 
ending in anarchy, but for the ordered liberty of law. It is 
their greatest glory that they builded even better than they 
knew, and that they would be astonished if they could see what 
has been reared upon the foundation which they laid 127 years 
ago. 

"The goodly heritage, spiritual as well as material, left us 
by our forefathers has grown to vast proportions. We are free 
forever from the fear of foreign tyranny. We have not only 
political independence, but political leadership in the world's 
affairs. Our flags floats over distant lands of which George 



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Washington never heard, and milHons hve under its beauty and 
blessings who cannot read the Declaration of Independence in 
the original. We have unexampled prosperity at home, unex- 
ampled authority abroad. But, as Washington foresaw in his 
farewell address, we are in danger from foes within the State 
from foes within ourselves. 'Where there is no vision, the 
people perish.' Our political independence, our material power 
and wealth, will not save us from the moral slavery of Rome 
and Greece which ended in their destruction. We realize that 
among the difficulties and dangers which confront us, material- 
ism, nourished by our very prosperity, is the most menacing of 
all. It manifests itself in money lust ; it manifests itself in 
blood lust. It is the duty of every American to lift up the 
standard of the spiritual life, of personal and civic righteous- 
ness, lest that enemy shall come in like a flood and sweep away 
our independence. It is not enough to admire and applaud 
the heroes of the past ; we ovirselves must be the heroes, and, 
it needs be, the martyrs of the present. In the faith that the 
patriots of America will keep alive forever the true 'spirit of 
'76,' the spirit of self-sacrifice, of splendid courage, of reverent 
trust in God and of obedience to His will, we may rejoice in the 
glorious prospects of the republic." 

The children of the public schools, under the direction of ilr. 
E. D. Tracy, sang "My Own United States." Commissioner 
Macfarland then introduced Admiral George Dewey. 

Commissioner Macfarland said : "The most famous admiral 
in the world, the admiral whose May-day victory spread the 
American flag, the American power, the American ideals and 
ideas, over the vast Philippine archipelago, and gave us new 
standing and greater influence, not only in the east, but in 
every quarter of the globe ; the admiral who made possible the 
cable to Manila and the messages which President Roosevelt 
and Governor Taft are exchanging over it in celebration of the 
day, the patriotic admiral, admirer of Thomas Jefiferson and 
the great Declaration which he wrote, will introduce the read- 
ins: of it." 



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Mr. Barry Bulkley, Historian of the Society of the Sons of 
the Revokition, who was to read the Declaration of Indepen- 
dence, was introduced by Admiral Dewey, who said: "It is 
my honor and pleasure to introduce the reader to-day of that 
memorable paper — our glorious Declaration of Independence. 
I present to you Mr. Barry Bulkley, a native of our beautiful 
Capital city." 

On the completion of this reading the audience united in 
singing "My Country 'Tis of Thee" accompanied by the U. S. 
Marine Band ; after which Mr. Macfarland introduced his Ex- 
cellency J. J. Jusserand, the Ambassador of France, with the 
following words : 

"Our only treaty of alliance has been with France, our 
faithful friend of the revolution, without whom it might have 
failed. We are honored to-day by the Ambassador of France, 
who shows by his participation his appreciation of our cele- 
bration, and who brings with him, as one of his secretaries, 
Vicomte de Chambrun, grandson of the Marquis de Lafay- 
ette. Jusserand is one of the honored names in the inter- 
esting list just published by France of the soldiers and sailors, 
over fifty thousand in number, who, with over five millions in 
money, were our ally's magnificent contribution to our cause. 
The ambassador bears that name ; he worthily wears our high- 
est university honors. Above all, he is bound to our country 
by the most sacred ties of personal affection. His presence is 
most grateful to us, and we greet him with respect and regard." 

M. Jusserand then spoke as follows : 

"One hundred and twenty-seven years ago, on a Thursday, 
towards evening, some fifty men, who could not yet call them- 
selves Americans, were gathered in a hall in Philadelphia, 
which could not yet be called Independence Hall. It was in- 
deed a solemn occasion, one of those great days when the fate 
of nations is decided. 

"No deed, no battle, no treaty was to be, in the whole of 
modern history, of greater consequence than the act for which 



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these men peacefully met in the brick house with a bell tower, 
still to be seen in Philadelphia. For a long time there had been 
among them those doubts and anxieties which the eminent 
President of this ceremony, Mr. Commissioner Macfarland has 
just eloquently recalled, but now they had, as a majority, made 
up their minds. 

"What took place? What words were exchanged? We 
should like to know them to the minutest particulars. But one 
thing we know, and that is enough: the men who came were 
insurgents; the men who left were free men. 

"A famous French thinker, Bossuet, said, over two centuries 
ago: 'By liberty, the Romans as well as the Greeks under- 
stood a State where people were subject to nothing except to 
law, and where law was more powerful than men.' That 
America would be such a State, your ancestors decided in 1776, 
and what they decided has been and shall ever be. 

"Congress assumed at once the powers, duties, and responsi- 
bilities resulting from their decision. They issued letters of 
marque, in the name of the new State, and, taking their place 
among free nations, prepared to sign treaties with their peers. 
One of the first decisions of the first free Congress of the 
United States of America was that an appeal would be made to 
foreign nations for an alliance, and a committee of five was ap- 
pointed to prepare the same. This was a very necessary move, 
for the task of Washington and of his heroic soldiers was a 
nearly superhuman one, and gloomy days were in store. This 
was another momentous hour in the history of this country. 

"Amid the silence of the nations, one voice was heard to say : 
'Adsiini;' — the voice of France. 'Here I am, willing and ready 
to risk with you, for better for worse, all I have : life and 
treasure, what remains of my colonies, and even that newly 
built navy of mine, the result of so many efforts, a navy just 
reconstructed at last, after eighty years of indifference and 
decay.' 

"In the first lines of the Act of Independence, it is said that 
'all men are created equal.' France considered that the same 
was true of all free nations, and negotiated with the new born 



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America of the eighteenth century as if she had been address- 
ing the powerful America of to-day, whose dominions extend 
from the one to the other of the world's oceans. If there was 
to be a difference she thought it should be in favor of the new 
nation; and so all the officers sent over here, had for instruc- 
tions to render special honors to their American brethren, to 
consider General Washington as having the rank, not of a gen- 
eral, but of a marshal of France; to yield (one may smile, but 
in those days it was considered the acme of courtesy) to yield 
the right side of American regiments on the battlefields. 

"Reading the treaty of alliance and the treaty of commerce 
signed then, one there was who said : 'The great principle in 
both treaties is a perfect equality and reciprocity : no advantage 
to be demanded by France, or privileges in commerce, which 
the States may not grant to any and every other nation. In 
short, the King has treated with us generously and magnanim- 
ously, taken no advantage of our present difficulties, to exact 
terms which we would not willingly grant when established in 
prosperity and power.' 

"The one who spoke thus was not a man to be carried away 
by idle sentiments and vain fancies: that one was Benjamin 
Franklin. 

"Truly great things can never be done contrary to the will of 
the people. The most generous or glorious purpose will be 
foiled, if the people misunderstands it, and does not heartily 
second the venture. 

"This indispensable element of success was not wanting in 
the time of the war of Independence : the army of America 
was an army of free men and of volunteers. As for France, 
what was the part played by her statesmen and rulers is well 
known ; but not so well known the part played by the people. 

" 'When I heard of American independence,' said La Fayette, 
my heart enlisted.' In this memorable word he summed up 
unawares the feeling of all France. When the gloomy days 
came and statesmen hesitated as to what should be done, the 
nation never did, and continued to be for the alliance and for 
practical help to be sent to those plucky men w^ho wanted to be 
free. 



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"Permit me to quote one single fact. When Rochambeau, 
the same Rochambeau to whose memory }'0U paid last year such 
a magnificent tribute, was gathering in France the troops or- 
dered for service in America, as our nation wanted to send her 
best battalions and her best men, all soldiers were submitted 
to competent examination. There is extant a report explaining 
how difficult it was to have this order properly carried out. 
All men were so eager to go that they all declared they were 
fit; they denied being ill, and concealed any infirmity that 
might prevent their being chosen. 

"After more than a hundred years, the names of all those 
privates and sailors having been recovered, the Government 
of the Republic has printed them. No one will deny that they 
deserved this modest tribute and that those lists of common 
place names have their eloquence : they are the names of men 
who fought for these brethren of theirs who wanted to be free. 

"Things undertaken in such a spirit are bound to succeed 
and what the success of your soldiers and ours has been, the 
whole world knovvs. 

"The nation whose life began one hundred and twenty-seven 
years ago has become an immense one, and eyes are more and 
more fixed upon her. On the day we now commemorate (in a 
ceremony to which I am beyond words proud to be associated), 
your ancestors bestowed upon you gifts and framed for you 
duties, the ones and the others equally splendid. They bestow- 
ed upon you that peerless gift, liberty; they left for you rules 
of life, obligations and responsibilities, which will become 
more and more binding as you become more and more 
powerful. These duties we have in common with you. En- 
dowed with institutions similar to yours, pursuing similar aims 
we intend to vie with you, no longer on the battlefield, in view 
of a liberty which has been won for ever, but in constant at- 
tempts to improve the condition of the many, to spread the 
spirit of brotherhood between men and between nations, to re- 
main in a word, true to the principles proclaimed in your Revo- 
lution and in ours. 



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"Great nations have great duties. Both the American and 
the French RepubHcs will perform their tasks, not for their 
benefit alone, but also, let us hope, for the benefit of mankind 
and for the progress of civilization. 

"The fight for better things is an endless one ; we shall fight 
it, you and we, with eyes fixed on the same ideal, the very same 
marked out by our ancestors long ago ; and our flags will move 
on, always towards the light, and while we follow them we 
shall be pleased to remember that, if their designs are different 
yet they display over our heads the same colors." 

In compliment to the distinguished guest the band rendered 
"The Marsellaise." The "Anvil Chorus" was presented by an 
adult chorus under the direction of Mr. W. J. Palmer. 

The Honorable William H. Moody was next introduced by 
the presiding officer, saying : 

"The national government, which takes part so heartily in 
this celebration, will be represented in the addresses by the 
Secretary of the Navy, a distinguished son of Massachusetts, 
which gave us Samuel Adams, the apostle of independence, and 
John Adams, whose arguments determined the adoption of the 
Declaration of Independence. The first battles of the Revolu- 
tion, battles which preceded the Declaration of Independence, 
and helped to bring it about, were fought within easy reach, of 
his birthplace and the navy of the Revolution was largely re- 
cruited from his district. No one can better speak for Massa- 
chusetts, or of the United States, than Secretary Moody." 

Secretary Moody then said : 

"This day's celebration is distinguished by one feature of ex- 
ceptional interest. We are signally honored by the presence 
and participation in our ceremony of the personal representa- 
tive of the President of a sister Republic, the Ambassador of 
France. He is thrice welcome — welcome for those personal 
qualities which fit and adorn his high rank, welcome as the 
ambassador of a powerful and friendly nation, and welcome as 



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the representative of the people who have a pecuHar right to 
rejoice with us on the birthday of the RepubHc. 

In this day of our prosperity and strength we enjoy the 
friendship of all nations. We appreciate it and wish its con- 
tinuance. But we do not forget that France was our friend in 
the days of our weakness, when with meager resources we were 
maintaining against mighty odds our struggle for national in- 
dependence. Without that friendship then the issue of the 
struggle would have been doubtful if not hopeless. As our 
ally she gave to us money, she gave to us armies, and, above 
all, she gave to us fleets. 

"It affords me an especial pleasure, which you will under- 
stand, to remind you that without the co-operation of the 
French fleet under De Grasse, the victory over Cornwallis at 
Yorktown which virtually determined the independence of the 
colonies, would never have been won. The English lay upon 
the peninsula beleaguered by the armies of Washington and 
Rochambeau. They could receive aid only by the sea. They 
could escape the attacking forces only over the sea. The fleet 
of De Grasse appeared in Chesapeake Bay at the opportune 
moment. It beat off the approaching relief and closed the ave- 
nue of escape. From that moment the surrender of Cornwallis 
was inevitable. When it occurred, well might Washington 
write as he did to De Grasse, 'The honor belongs to Your 
Excellency.' It is not unworthy of note that, in an official com- 
munication to the English Parliament in October last of a 
memorandum on 'Sea Power,' the surrender of Cornwallis, 
termed in the communication 'The prelude to the independence 
of the United States,' was attributed to the failure of the Eng- 
lish admiral to maintain himself against De Grasse off the en- 
trance to Chesapeake Bay. 

"Having in mind such events as these, it is with knowledge 
and discrimination, and not with mere words of courtesy, that 
we welcome you, sir, to our family festival, and express the 
hope that in yours, which is to come ten days from to-day, 
your people may understand that we wish them every gift 
which fortune can bestow. 



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"It is our custom as the anniversary of the Declaration of 
Independence comes to dwell upon the circumstances of our 
history which appeal to our pride as a people. Surely for this 
purpose there is at our command an abundance of material. 
If I were obliged to employ a single word which best described 
the century and a quarter of our national existence it would be 
the word 'Growth.' We have grown in territory, in numbers, 
in wealth, in power, in intelligence, and in our general well- 
being. One has but to travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific 
and from the Lakes to the Gulf to be proud of our people and 
their accomplishment. At the opening of the last century our 
less than five millions of freemen dwelt along the Atlantic 
seaboard, near to the sound of the waters beating upon our 
shore. They have increased and multiplied and swarmed over 
mountain and river and arid plain until they have conquered 
the continent from ocean to ocean, developed its resources, 
wrung from the breast of nature its choicest secrets, and won 
that power which national wealth confers. 

"But it is sometimes wise to preach as well as to give praise. 
If we would keep what we have won ; if we would maintain 
and strengthen our position among the nations we should purify 
the sources of national life and guard well the qualities upon 
which our continued strength as a nation depends. In a gov- 
ernment in which all the people equally participate, universal 
intelligence is demanded. Without it, government by the peo- 
ple must be a failure. The enemy of our institutions finds in 
ignorance his most effective ally, and the hope of the pres- 
ervation of a government by the people lies in the education 
of all — a debt due from the present to future generations. 

"The impartial enforcement of the law is the essence of a 
pure democracy. However else they may differ, whether in 
intelligence, in wealth, or race, or color, or ability, all men are 
equal before the law, and the laws which are enforced equally 
for and against all should be respected by all. The remedy 
for any wrong should be sought under the law and in the 
courts which represent the majesty of the people's will. Any 
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a contempt not only of the courts themselves but of the people 
who have created the courts. Mob violence puts every man's 
rights to the doubtful determination of men inflamed by pas- 
sionate resentment and maddened by the thirst for revenge, 
renders our voice feeble when raised against oppression else- 
where, and displays a barbarity which shames the nation in the 
face of the world. Let this people whose government has 
been called a government of laws and not of men fix upon 
those who hold themselves above the law and wiser than the 
law the seal of their condemnation. 

"In nothing has the growth of our nation been shown more 
clearly than in the kind and volume of the public business 
which it transacts. The truth of this appears upon every side. 
There is in the service of the people an ever-increasing army 
of men and women holding positions high and low, from the 
President of the Republic to the humblest watchman of our 
public property. Let them once as a body or even in great 
numbers become corrupt and the nation will surely decay. 
There is one quality upon which and above and beyond all 
others — a thousand times above and beyond all others — we 
must for our very life insist, and that is the quality of public 
honesty. There is no disease of the body politic so subtle, so 
powerful so dangerous, so fatal, as the corrupt betrayal of a 
public trust whether the trust be great or small. I can not but 
believe that in the main those who do the people's work are 
honest and true. If it were otherwise I would despair of our 
future. But at intervals the malignant ulcer of corruption ap- 
pears in the cities, in the states, in the nation. When it be- 
trays itself it is no time for surface treatment. The knife must 
reach under every poisonous root that each may be cut out 
and cast away. Sometimes I seem to see a tendency to con- 
done the offense of those who are guilty of this crime of crimes, 
to set up in dealing with the Government a standard which 
would not be tolerated in private life. Take warning lest that 
thought flourish. Let us not easily believe charges which are 
made lightly. Let them be investigated with the cold impar- 
tiality of a court of law ; but if the offense be proved, let the 



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displeasure of the people come like a thunderbolt from on 
high. Let not the hand of justice be stayed or its edicts tem- 
pered with a misguided mercy. We can forgive all else ; we 
can show mercy to all other offenders ; but let the people say 
that the one sin unpardoned and unpardonable here upon the 
earth shall be the dishonesty of a public servant. 

"We have from the fathers a beautiful heritage. It has been 
won for us by toil and struggle, agony and bloody sweat. In 
our day and time it is for us to see that it is transmitted 
unimpaired and enriched to those who shall dwell here when 
our day is done." 

The exercises came to a close by the singing of the "Star 
Spangled Banner" followed by a benediction from the Rever- 
end T. S. Hamlin, D. D. 



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